Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for interface binding

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 01:54:22PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As you may have noticed multiple people asked to add SO_BINDTODEVICE support
> to Net-SNMP. This patch series adds such support by allowing to specify the
> name of the network interface to bind a Net-SNMP endpoint to as
> "@<interface name>". An example:
> 
> agent/snmpd -Mmibs -f -Lo -c .../snmpd.conf udp6:localhost@lo:1161 -r
> apps/snmpwalk -Mmibs -v2c -cpublic udp6:localhost:1161 .1

I have no real feeling one way or the other over the patch per se but I
am wondering if the clash with virtual interface names on linux (e.g.
lo:1) makes the choosen syntax problematic for the interface name
parser?

/MF